The power of knowledge : how information and technology made the modern world / Jeremy Black.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014وصف:xii, 492 pages ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300167955
- 0300167954
- 9780300208672
- 0300208677
- CB478 .B54 2014
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | CB478 .B54 2014 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000035174 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | CB478 .B54 2014 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000035173 |
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CB465 .S4312 2005 البحر والتاريخ : تحديات الطبيعة واستجابات البشر / | CB478 .A34 1996 Paths of fire : an anthropologist's inquiry into Western technology | CB478 .B54 2014 The power of knowledge : how information and technology made the modern world / | CB478 .B54 2014 The power of knowledge : how information and technology made the modern world / | CB478 F76 1999 Frontiers of the 21st century : prelude to the new millennium / | CB478 M87 1991 تأملات في التكنولوجيا والتنمية من منظور حضاري / | CB478 M87 1991 تأملات في التكنولوجيا والتنمية من منظور حضاري / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction --- 2. A Global Perspective ---- THE EARLY PERSPECTIVE. 3. The West and the Oceans --- 4. Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution --- 5. Government and Information ---- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 6. The West in the World --- 7. Enlightenment and Information --- 8. Enlightenment States? ---- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 9. Information and the New World Order --- 10. The Utilitarian View --- 11. The Bureaucratic Information State ---- TO A CHANGING PRESENT. 12. Information and the World Question --- 13. Information Is All --- 14 A Scrutinised Society ---- LOOKING AHEAD. 15. Into the Future --- 16. Conclusions.
"Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive perspective, focusing on the relationship between information and society and demonstrating how the understanding and use of information have been the primary factors in the development and character of the modern age. Black suggests that the West's ascension was a direct result of its institutions and social practices for acquiring, employing, and retaining information and the technology that was ultimately produced. His cogent and well-reasoned analysis looks at cartography and the hardware of communication, armaments and sea power, mercantilism and imperialism, science and astronomy, as well as bureaucracy and the management of information, linking the history of technology with the history of global power while providing important indicators for the future of our world"-- Provided by publisher.